One of the many benefits of using our gradus line of flooring accessories is that they can be curved to fit radius areas.
How to make a flooring radius for a cutved step.
She said her husband wanted a double curve nosing and riser on the one step down to their living room.
Trim tack strips with a utility knife into small pieces to fit around the curve.
When installing hardwood laminate ect.
Make a template from newsprint or masking paper for curves that span several flooring boards.
This makes curving on site impossible.
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I looked the job over and i was thinking this was a small job.
The first arc defines the inside of the curve the second arc 12 inches out from the first marks the walkline and the third defines the outside edge of the stairs.
It would take me the same amount of hours to install the new floor as it would to make that one piece of nosing.
Use a piece of paper that is long enough to span the curve and wide enough to intersect the.
Place the strips on the floor around the curve ensuring that the teeth face the wall and the ends of the strips.
The curved wall that i build actually becomes the form for my inside stringer.
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In this video series you ll see how master carpenter mike belzowski builds a curved stair riser by first creating a full scale drawing of the starting step he then uses that as a reference to make templates for both the riser form and curved tread.
Don t get me wrong i could do it with no problem.
The reason for this is that most flooring accessories are made of a rigid material metal or hard plastic.
The bottom plate of my curved wall is actually a series of wedge shaped pieces of 2 4 that fit between the studs at the front edge of each step.
The steps in my curved wall give me the location to cut the stinger for each step.